| Show UNCLE TO FlOUT FIGHT GRASSHOPPERS Proposes to Spread Sead Plague PJ gue guc ong Them In lp ip New ev and Novel Man Alan ner s Up Bottled Disease to be Shipped to Afflicted Districts ft 1 Only too well weli ell do the th older resident ot of Utah rem when heh tho the shop shoppers pers coma came in swarms a laid hula lat waste mile upon mile mil of or fertile country It Is with this disastrous J eol h mind that they the are rIsing Vl with alarm l the In Increase Increase crease creaso of ot the tho Insect thu the State Stall for tor they fear feni tho the pest peat almost n as great Jre l n M th one ne which visited vl ltd Utah renTS years g lo are In inthe theland the g They tire Ir fi it their th over o er the Un n grain Brain end are tle I Itt tt ru tl In Ia their In 1 many coun counties Co fl ties tI I U ti Is I not paly Utah tuft which Is however AH 11 through thus thu Wo Yest t anti 1 Southwest st the hopper has hag pt alarm anti and tho the government has hns been roused roul t to action a How lIow It plans to fight the thO pest peat Is well Veil told In this article train from Sundays Now Nosy York Herald There Is a n plague of In Inthe Inthe the tho West anti and Southwest and are much alarmed t StartlIng reports on the subject are aro coming In from New Mexico Colorado Wyoming and Ne No Nebraska NcI braska but the tho situation In southern I Texas Booms to bo be Worse Vorse than I where else One On correspondent says lays that the wheat fields are alive with hoppers another states that deso delio desolation lation laUon Is II Imminent anti anil a third writ writIng Ing hog train from North Platte Neb Neu remarks that this Is III tho the third year car of ot tim the pest In that region Time The government Is l doing what It can canto canto canto to mitigate tho the misfortune and to that end Is adopting a new and very extra extraordinary ordinary means meun for tor the tho In Insect sect Reel warms swarms Under the direction of ot Professor L 1 0 Howard duet chief of or tho the bureau of 01 entomology It Is putting up In Iii bottles bottleR disease germs of 01 n ii fungous t kind deadly to grasshoppers and anti U lit sending them to parts of ot tho the country where the tim damage threatens to be par l ar severe overe The Th fungus Is obtained from South Africa where It U has line been lI n used tired with great success recently reCel U vast armies of at grasshoppers literally wiped out by It It Is artificially by applying a 11 bit of at it to It a sterilized prep preparation of ot gelatine ansi and blood lerum on which the germs multiply rapidly Thus prepared the cultures aro Iro sent out In glass tubes corked with absorb absorbent ent out cotton and sealed with red rell wax vax earh ench one no being enclosed In ha a pasteboard cylinder Directions for Cor use accompany the th package In Colorado last summer there was yn an nn outbreak of ot fungus funeUs disease among grasshoppers hoPPer and of ot the dead dealt Insects were shipped to Washing Wa ton tori find and utilized here fOr making cut cuI lure turre A t whitish threadlike growth l on time the bodies of at tho the victims furnished tle requisite germs These cultures have been distributed during the tte pres present present ent eat year In Colorado lly while the from South Africa Is being tried In Texas On receiving n a bottle of ot the fungus time the farmer U is directed by an tin Crom printed slip to put n a number of 0 live grasshoppers In n a wooden box bOJe together with a 1 portion tit dt the germ ma ala material Serial They will wilt quickly become In footed coOed l when he may many liberate nil all but helt a i dozen or so I Thell when dead will whit orvo to com Cohn the time disease to 10 other living placed In the th box bo for that The box 1 bo hr covered with slats chats to admit air anti and nn some grass grafts should be hl Put pul In It i also dampness en n coura the growth nf at the fungus As All fast fust t as nil they the nr ate Infected th ii hop ore are to be set free trIo In the 1 to distribute the plague among their tel fel lows The grasshopper la is l one nf of tho the mst meat serious problems problem encountered by h the former In the West Owin to the HIP st pt t t ent of ot great areas which formerly worn WerA Its It permanent breeding grounds ansi and enormous cr m nf or the pests every ever stir vear the ln ft no laneer r In thom thoss tho warm that ii lined i to tl arrive like Ike devastating armIes nod and Rn devour even evet thing thina green Imn Put nut even een not n II season passe that the tho henners do 1111 not In numb rs to hI n Horn isom parts of mIt the HIP country the iho crops anti M bringing prent ot tn or even en ruin run to Iho the s In former times tho he sometimes In warm multi I almost hII Twenty Twentysix six di years yearn P t nil the this Hk Ill Little nine UIs rivers rIver tributaries nf or the nur were 10 cros ed nt lit numerous nieces hv h vast vant bodies nf of hp the th In ct which nr ar reed to the Hie waters water wa ter edge ele end begin lumping I In one upon u On another until they the actually the stream treAm Two of these hosts hosta chanced to tl meet one Oil moving eastward and the he other otner westward pu on n n a river ilver bluff In the came locality and nn n l turning their courso cours downward from n ft perpendicular that lInt cliff feet ft t high they the ov over r It In a sheet six pIX tx or seven Inches n ies thinK thick with a 11 roaring noise like that or ora II a cataract of or water It Is l stated on oil re reliable liable authority that grasshoppers have hav Peon been seen Slen to t swim user the river In 11 Europe for or a 1 stretch of on one and amid u a quarter miles In a layer more macre than half a n foot root thick Nothing short of oC fire will check the progress pro rc s of an array of tit grasshoppers on Oil 05 tho the march Water unless ls in tn wide VIde riv rh rivers ers er 1 i no bar to Oo their progress He Be e tome fore their advance the tue unfortunate I armors are aie ar wIll well nigh helpless Time The I plague arrives arrIea and lInd 1 lo 10 n sot nil If hi by b magic the time crops are swept from tram tho the fa fae e ot of tho the As a tor tar tho the hoppers they sow their t h own crop top planting in 0 Ono One season seaon n the tho he eggs cI which me flue to be hatched In the next The female drills drill a 11 hole In the thu ground with the tho horny horn tip of ot her ab nb domen anil an In this she sho lays lay about twenty eggs which are ore bound or In a 11 mites maw with mucus excreted by the tho mother Insect In Tho The burrow butro Is tilled filled up with which makes It watertight Now Not the farmers best chance 1 Is II to destroy tho the unhatched eggs egg and al thU thin he tries to do In various ways trays the most effective perhaps being to slice off orr an luel of at the top toll soil dry elry It and antI pass tt It through sieves to separate the egg musses masses which arc are burled buried In lu deep Mcp pits pita In tho the wheat growing regions burning machines which are open osen grates grate on runners filled with lighted lI h 1 1 are aro drawn by horses howes across tho Ohm fields Itch Another AMther method consists con In digging pits pita Into which the swarms ore ate dr with the help of or widespread wings of ot canvas Stretched on The Th eggs fire re enveloped In tough lit tle tie capsules capsule not easily broken by hy b pres cure between thumb and finger but when ready rend to hatch the time coat of ot tho the ovum Is i and releases the In ln sect set t When new nets no born time the young grass hopper Is covered with n a sort of veil Which presently splits along the tha back and Is kicked off art behind So 8 long bong at na there Is IN plenty of or food toad In the tho neigh ha lie does doce not move about much hut when thu th available provender Is ex cx hausted ho he h starts out to look for tOlan an other spot f pot C It Is In this way that the great migra tl ns are aro begun an tin army of el pore pers on the march being often ao na much as a n mile wide They The cover the ground 1 densely devouring as itA they go all grass gras grain anti and an garden n truck tru k Sometimes two sUch sudi armies cross each ench other but each keeps kelp right along III iti Its own course It Is I when hen grasshoppers develop their wings that thai they the become really reull rapid in their movements Sumac Some species of ot them are Me much hotter better b flyers 11 than others while certain kinds have only ruth rudi mentar wings and so S cannot fly 0 at all Immense clouds cl of 01 the Insects some times pass over aVer er the plains anti and thinly settled nettled regions region of ot the Northwest trav tray cling eling at nt a 11 rate of two to hundred or three hundred miles a slay day the time wind being favorable Some grasshoppers aro are among the most beautiful insects In In the world wont with wings In beauty aM delicacy of hues uell till the petals of flowers pink green blue otherwise tinted with many variations 1 ria There nr some om I of If tf huge hUKe size alzo which hove hll a spread of 01 t nine Inches or moro more from rom Ing II fo o wing tying InA tip Anybody nybo who will n a cannot fall 1111 10 to the beauty of 01 Its con nail and particularly of oC the tho armor In which It Is 19 clad though It Is n a peace able creature and anti by no means inclined to combat In China grasshoppers are nr a fearful C plague at nt times thurn occasionally tho time government orders older out tM soldiers to repel r pel th the Each SoldIer tar ear ties ries Instead or ora o a gun Iun a coarse hempen bag baft ag attached to a bamboo pole with wide open mouth Is Ie I u ed ns os a net A bounty bount Is a also taIt to farmers for tor the decal inserts nt at forty rort sens per pound and for tor or the tho eggs they hey collect nut limit the time most effective destroyers destroyer are nrc ducks which are driven over the tho Infest ed fields In looks numbering thousand anti gorge themselves greedily greed II with the hoppers hopper In flint country there the Is a 1 curious and widespread ll belief beller In the existence e of a n King 1 Grasshopper Orn called Wang of colossal size anti and character who hovers Invisible In the upper regions of the air directing the migrating swarms Sacrifices are made to him to p him to spare pare the particular locality In which his pet peti dwell I |
